Portal 2 Announcement: Microsoft’s Mistake Is Sony’s Gain

NowGamer: Oh, Gabe Newell. How things change. Once you were Sony’s biggest critic, frequently turning up in the gaming news to deride the company’s console or criticise its way of business. But then came Sony’s E3 2010 press conference, and with it an incredibly newsworthy quote of an altogether different kind...

Thats so true, its the reason why TF2 on the orange box on Xbox 360 never received the class updates (because M$ wanted for them to be dlc for $). XBLA is just to restricting which is also why no good mmo's are coming to Xbox like DC Universe.

You hit the g spot there dual. Everything from online service to 3rd party accessories, I just bought a logitech wheel for GT5 and one of the FAQ was why it didnt work on the xbox. Turns out MS wants Logitech to pay them for the "privilege" of making a wheel for them. Of course logitech wont do that, in the end making arguably the best wheels only for ps3 and pc. Paying more for less...

"We shipped Team Fortress 2 on PC and the Xbox. We shipped over 120 updates on the PC and we’ve shipped less than five on Xbox."

SERIOUSLY?!? Microsoft is absolutely greedy!...Less than 5? Microsoft really wants you to pay for everything. I have played Team Fortress 2 on PC and I can tell you it is absolutely fantastic. So many mods, weapon mods etc. and I've been thinking...if they ever came to the Xbox, how much would they all cost?!?

Cloud shift for saves is an AMAZING idea you can upload your save from PS3 and continue it on your laptop while out and about?? That AWESOME! We just need Sony to do an official cloud storage for protected saves now.

Would be great if sony did offer their own cloud service. I know it wont be long before i eventually get a slim and will prob get a big hdd at the same time. Would be a lot easier if all my saves were online though

That's the #1 feature I want for PSN. I don't care about cross game chat or any of that other crap. Just let me save my game to PSN and pick where I left off from any other PS3, or now in some cases even a PC.

MS has always chosen to keep their online part of their console very close. Epic said the same thing with the Unreal game but now that we have a huge game that will be vastly superior on the PS3 will MS finally react and open up there console or be behind Sony again and again…

The sad thing is the fools will keep paying more for LIVE without blinking and eye.

I just create a new account(1 month free gold with new account) if I play and online game on my 360 because I can only take about 1 month at a time listen to all those retarded kids on there then I need to take a break. Plus M$ keeps sending me free 1 month gold subscriptions in the mail every once in a while. I would never pay for that crap when I get to play games for free online with Steam an PSN.

Well maybe we're starting to see a trend here, we already got DC online on both the PC and PS3. Maybe in the next couple of months they're going to send out a patch that's going to allow PS3 players to interact with PC players. Who knows, in any case this pretty cool.

For all the DAs I got calling out Gabe for his PS3 comments.. good laugh for me...to last laugh at the DAs

Sure Gabe sees the potential now and is gonna rock with the openness of the PS3... to bad he had to make a fool of himself and run his mouth dissing the PS3. He now knows he should have just taken the high road...

We can all say that he is wrong now but remember the PS3 and PSN is extremely different to what it was when it first released.

I hated gabe as well but i feel sony needed people to Sh!t on them for them to get their act together about the ps3. Look at it now....we have the most exclusives, PSN is great, and plus many more changes due to a very vocal audience

dont cut Valve short as a stellar development house. They had the knowledge and resources to do whatever they wanted with PSN and PS3... They just sat on the sidelines to see how things would turn out. Now they are just realizing the potential and are late to the party, but WILL deliver...

Gabe was just unprofessional in his early comments about the PS3.. now its coming home to roost.

Ted Price always takes the high road and Gabe unfortunately made a fool of himself....

MS is all about Kinect now.. They are making a boat load of $$ from hardware and software.. I only bought 3 games for my 360 last year and this year will be about the same.. For me, its like MS did with the Xbox... toss in the towel to early and just rely on 2 franchises

looks like sony is taking over this year. hopefully they continue their dominance and get some more sales (I say this because it's sad the 360 still has more sales when the PS3 has way more to offer.. ahh consumer, you make me sad)

the difference in graphics is going to be minor as they always are seriously you have to look at zoomed screen-shots to see a difference trust me they exaggerate most of the time...........except for bayonetta

I'd get it on my preferred gaming console (which is the 360) but M$ is sh!tting away it's original loyal base. With that said, regardless of my total dislike for my DS3, I'm really just gonna let my money do the talking most of this year and put it towards PS3 games. I sure do hope Left 4 Dead comes to PS3. I'd stop paying for live for sure if that happened.

Today the company further revealed the features PS3 will support for Portal 2. Not only will the PS3 copy include a key for the PC and Mac versions of the game, but it will also include a “persistent cloud-based storage of PS3 saved games”, cross-platform chat on PS3, PC and Mac, and most amazingly, cross-platform play between PS3 and both PC and Mac owners of the game.

You know I have given this some thought today and though I wasn’t going to buy Portal 2 straight away because I don’t feel like it alone is a $60.00 game, I was eventually going to get it and since I played the others on my 360 I was going to get it for that.

Now I think when I do get it I will buy it for my PS3.

IMO things like this have to be supported and I intend to do that.

We as a community send messages with (or lack thereof) our $$$.

Edit to add: just checked on Amazon and not only do you get the PC version for free, it's $5.00 cheaper than the 360 version.